Yes, Jurassic Park, at the heart of things, is most certainly "Dinosaurs killing people"
And yes, MV movies are, at the heart of it, "Giant monsters destroying cities and fighting each other"
But there are a lot of things you can weave in and around those two subjects to come up with a good movie.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. So when it works, it's a good movie with monsters or dinosaurs.
When it doesn't, you still have the monsters and dinosaurs to fall back on.
Most of the old Toho Godzilla movies are flat-out terrible as movies. But they have Godzilla, so we love them anyway because we're all Godzilla fans and if he's there, we going to at least like that part of it.
I personally am not much of a fan of the new JP series. Don't like the whole "training the raptors for the military" and all that. Also don't like the whole "they built a huge theme park" based around dinosaurs, that had previously shown to be unpredictable and uncontrollable....like we were too stupid to have learned our lesson there.
But the first one was kind of entertaining. I checked out after that.
The MV is pretty much delivering, IMO. Decent-to-good movie subject matter, and top-notch monster CGI and action.
It'll never be as big as JP. JP has a built-in "Wow" factor, because of the time and place the original movie was released. Best CGI ever at that point, awesome topic, great movie, and this was before everything was CGI, so it was groundbreaking.
All the rest of them have built off of that. No MV movie was ever going to make an impact like that....98 was the time and opportunity for that, and that movie blew it. So from here on, anytime we can get $400-500 million out of a MV movie, we should celebrate and call that a win. That's pretty much the high end for this type of subject material.
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gottatalktothefake wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 8:53 am
KK42 wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 8:43 am
phantomsdaydreams wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 7:56 pm
Also, when I was counting the reviews when they first started pouring in, a lot of negative reviews had a unhealthy fascination with the MV ending. Saying things like “this will probably be the last one” and “hopefully it’s over”. I’ve never seen this kind of talk from critics about any other universe, not even the DCEU which had a streak of horrifically reviewed films.
You see it a lot as a Jurassic Park fan.
"OMG, wHy aRe tHeY'Re mAkInG aNotHer oNe?????"
They're making another one so they can finish the story in this damn trilogy, you skreeonking donkeys.
“ANOTHER Jurassic movie? They make these too often!” *gushes over the trillion marvel movies that come out like 10x as often*
Yeah, but Marvel movies are all different. Jurassic movies are all dinosaurs, and mostly the same dinosaurs.
An Iron Man movie is totally different from Spiderman or Hulk or Dr Strange or Black Panther.
They might all be superheroes, but the similarities end there.
If every Marvel movie was based around say, Hulk, like all the MV movies are based around Godzilla, you might have a point.
But comic books are BOOKS. Not all books are the same, even if they have the same type of theme.
That's like saying all war movies are the same because they are all based on a war.